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Life long liberal, blissful atheist, lover of all animals and very few people. Too old to put up with any more BS. Rogier van den Weyden fan. Here to toast marshmallows in the widening gyre with you all. NB: I believe profanity is necessary these days.
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He nails it.

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Like tell troops to fire on US citizens....add to the changes in the military chain of command, the pardoning of the J6 criminals, and the erasure of the police monitoring data base. It's not hard to see what they are getting ready to do.

Trump just fired the nonpartisan Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Chairman Brown is a respected leader and an accomplished fighter pilot. Trump is trying to stack the military with loyalists who will put what’s best for Trump over what’s best for America.

Brad Schimel has spent his career as an extreme right-wing politician. As WI’s worst AG, he used his power to force his own dangerous agenda on Wisconsin, including fighting against reproductive freedom & access to contraception. There are options! VOTE FOR Susan Crawford, Wisconsin!

I cannot confirm this independently but I am hearing the same thing from a source. If anyone can confirm or share info about the definitive shutdown of the 2024 PRAMS data collection can you contact me on Signal at joshtpm dot 99 or via encrypted mail at joshtpm at protonmail dot com

Someone needs to buy up the first ten rows of the orchestra for Capitol Police officers to show up in uniform.

another injustice.... add it to the list of crimes.

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

It’s time to start wrapping our heads around the real possibility that collective action and even a general strike are required. Musk is working fast to solidify control, do as much damage as possible, and party “opposition” is not up to the fight. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/collective...

Y'all notice this hypocrisy? •Musk gets $20B+ in federal subsidies—is celebrated! •NPR gets ~$3M in federal grants—Trump wants to shut it down as "wasteful." This isn't democracy—it's autocracy & an all out war on free press. Here are two ways we can fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-war-on...

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It is both breaking my heart and making me incandescently angry that one of the few silver linings of covid is the rapid progression of mRNA vaccine treatments for cancers - right as the GOP has declared all out War both on science as a whole and on mRNA vaccines specifically.

Reminder- John Lewis was a student, not an elected representative, when he stood up for justice. Each of us can choose to do the same. Let his life be a shining example to us all.

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

BOV is appointed by the Governor of Va. So what do you expect? BUT there is a critical gubernatorial election in NOV. UVA and all Virginia citizens will have a chance to vote then. REGISTER TO VOTE NOW! THEN VOTE, goddamit!

A must watch with @anandwrites.bsky.social and @anatosaurus.bsky.social!

Every time I see this framing- that the Democrats are the ones who will lead us out of this, I am reminded that no politicians led the fight to abolish slavery, get women's suffrage, the civil rights movement, etc. It is us- WE THE PEOPLE - who have to do the work. We can lead! We must!

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

"[O]ffenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021" — the pardon language — now means whatever the fuck Pam Bondi, Emil Bove, and Donald Trump say it means, apparently.

This could be one way that the Trump administration attacks abortion access, which in red states is now largely conducted by sending pills through the mail.

"Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that a third of your people would kill another third, while a third watches." — Werner Herzog 🌱📷

Reminder: Zelenskyy refused to leave Kyiv as bombs fell. Donold hid in a bunker from protesters with cardboard signs.

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

She shouldn't have had to nearly die, to lose the chance of ever having children. This should never have happened. Great she is getting the recognition for her speaking out but this is still a travesty.

We call them "the Greatest Generation" for shooting Nazis.

a day that will live in infamy...

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

This is an excellent template and should be disseminated widely

Pay attention, folks. A massive betrayal of this country is happening before our eyes.